A new U.S. whiskey reaches a new height in pricing, at nearly $4,000 per bottle and an expected $350 per shot.

Limited-edition offerings have become commonplace as whiskey makers dabble in new flavors to lure customers. But the latest introduction by Michter's Distillery LLC breaks into a pricing stratosphere that could reverberate across the industry.

Politicians didn't like it, the public didn't like it, so the gigantic Louis Vuitton suitcase is being booted out of Red Square.

The GUM department store on Red Square, which is responsible for 30-feet (nine meters) high and 100-feet (30-meters) long construction, promised in a statement released Wednesday that it would be dismantled.

A U.S. city welcomed Wednesday a court ruling which could force the closure of a U.S. factory that makes famed Sriracha chili sauces, after neighbors complained of spicy smells.

The California city of Irwindale, outside Los Angeles, asked last month for Huy Fong Food's facility to be closed and that the company be forced to improve odor-filtering measures.

Hungarian football champions Gyori ETO found an original way to punish their players after an embarrassing defeat, by confiscating the keys to their high-end cars, a media report said Thursday.

The management of the club, which took its fourth Hungarian league title last season, struck back after the team went down 3-0 last weekend against bottom-of-the-league side Mezokovesd-Zsory SE, the news portal kisalfold.hu reported.

A British IT worker has launched a frantic search of a landfill site after realizing he accidentally threw away a computer drive holding $7.5 million (5.5 million euros) in the online currency bitcoin.

James Howells, 28, obtained 7,500 bitcoins in 2009 when the currency was virtually worthless. Its value has since soared, with a single bitcoin hitting $1,000 for the first time on Tuesday.

A Spanish court handed two-year jail sentences on Wednesday to three men convicted of splattering cream pies over a top regional politician in protest at plans to build a railway.

Spain's highest criminal tribunal, the National Court, found them guilty of an "attack on authority" by smearing the head of government for the Navarre region, Yolanda Barcina, with sticky white pies in 2011.

Tamagotchi, the egg-shaped virtual pet beloved of schoolchildren in the 1990s, is making a comeback and is set to hit the shelves of European shops in time for Christmas.

The tiny toy character, which owners have to nurture to maturity, was a worldwide smash the first time around, with maker Bandai selling 40 million units between 1996 and 1999.

Are you both bald AND lost? Then the new "SmartWig" from Japan might be just what you need.

The techno-toupe, which can read the wearer's brainwaves and direct them to their destination with onboard GPS, is the latest -- and possibly the wackiest -- addition to the world of wearable computing.

A 60-year-old Japanese man switched at birth says he would like to "roll back the clock", days after winning a lawsuit against the hospital that mistakenly cast him into a life of poverty.

The man told a packed Tokyo press conference that he was shell-shocked when he learnt the truth, saying his life would have been starkly different.

French luxury brand Louis Vuitton has been ordered to remove a giant trunk put up as a publicity stunt on Moscow's iconic Red Square, an associated department store said Wednesday, after it triggered outrage among Russians.

The boxy brown suitcase-shaped pavilion, covered with the brand's signature "LV" stenciling was erected 10 days ago just outside GUM, a 19th century upmarket department store across from the Kremlin that faces the square.